If there is a broad consensus still left in America today, it is that drugs are bad. Nancy Regan told me this, but so has Darren Aronofsky. Richard Nixon. TLC. Kermit the Frog. An egg cooking in a pan. Breaking Bad. All vehemently anti-drugs. The Wire surely the last American institution to command broad trust was about how many things were bad, and drugs were certainly one of them. Drugs: nope. They're bad. But the first period of Saturday's hockey game asks a provocative question. What if… what if drugs are good? Because that game was on drugs. And it was good. By the end of one period of hockey folks in Yost Ice Arena had seen 34 shots, seven goals, eight penalties, two majors, and one game misconduct in a pear tree. Last week I wrote about how Old Yost felt, and Wisconsin came in like Northern Michigan or Lake State of old, leading with the jaw and throwing haymakers. They got blitzed on Friday, got pissed Friday night, and came into the Saturday game looking for any ex
How long must a team suffer? How long has a team suffered? This is the fourth of several posts looking into the playoff droughts of 30 of the 32 active NHL franchises to figure out what went wrong and how it ended. This post covers Minnesota, Montreal, Nashville, the New York Islanders, and the New York Rangers.
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